Wardrobe-trunk



0. RANGNOW.

WARDROBE TRUNK.

APPLICATION FILED DEc.24l |918.

Patented Dec. 7,1920; y

Inventor; Otto Han/gnou;

ell/dt @METEO STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OTTO RANGNOVV, 0F FHILADELIHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOIR.` TO RANGNOW BROTHERS, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, COMPOSED OF RUDOLPH C. RANGNOW, ADOLPt-I I-I. RANGTNO, MARIE lVI. TIIUSS, AND THE SAID OTTO RAN GN OW.

WARDROBE-TRUNK.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, O'r'ro RANGNOW, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VVardrobe-Trunks, of which the following is a specification. y

My invention relates to improvements in a wardrobe trunk and particularly relates to improvements in a wardrobe trunk having the usual wardrobe section and a drawer section, with a compartment or receptacle adapted to be used as a shoe-box. The said shoebox has heretofore been placed in the bottom of the wardrobe section, where it was detachably secured by guide strips, which would permit the shoe-box to be lifted out of the trunk, when the trunk was open, to permit garments to be inserted or removed from the wardrobe section.

rFhe object of my invention is to mount the shoe-box upon the drawer section of the trunk in such a manner that it will occupy the same relative position in the trunk as heretofore, when the trunk is closed, but when the trunk is open the shoe-box will remain upon the drawer section and it will be automatically withdrawn from the wardrobe section, leaving the latter free for the insertion and removal of garments; a fur ther object of my invention is to provide a drawer with a shoe-box constructed upon the front face of the drawer; a further object of my invention is to provide a drawer coextensive in size with one section of the trunk and having an extension constructed thereon and extending into the opposite section of the trunk when the trunk is closed; and a still further object of my invention is to provide a removable unit comprising two compartments, one thereof being accessible by withdrawing the unit from the closed position in the trunk and the other thereof accessible by means of a lid adapted to be opened without withdrawing the unit.

Referring to the accompanying drawings Figure 1, is a perspective view of a wardrobe trunk showing my invention embodied therein; Fig. 2, is a perspective view of the unit comprising a drawer and shoe-box, removed from the trunk; Fig. 3, is a vertical section, as on line 3--3 Fig. 4; and Fig 47 is a horizontal section on line 4.-4 Fig. 3,

Specification of Letters Patent.

` continuation of the panel 16 Patented Dec. 7, 1920.l

24, 1918. Serial N0.268,138.

showing the door in the open position in full lines and in the closed position in dotted lines.

Throughout the drawings like reference characters refer to like parts. The wardrobe trunk, as shown in the drawings, consists of the body section 1 and the door section 2. Said sections are hinged together by hinges 4, in the usual manner, and adapted to swing open when the trunk is standing on end to make the interior accessible, as shown in Fig. 1.

In the type of wardrobe trunk shown herewith, the door section 2 forms a wardrobe section to receive garments suspended upon the hangers 5 and thus forming a wardrobe section extending the full length of the trunk. rlhe body section 1 consists of-a number of drawers 6 and 7 co-extensive in size with the transverse cross-section of the body portion. v

The lowest drawer 7 has a receptacle 8 formed upon the front face thereof, as shown in Fig. 2. lhe front receptacle 8 is adapted for carrying shoes. Said receptacle .or shoe-box is provided with a lid 10, secured by hinges 9, to the front panel 12 and held in the closed position by fastening devices 13, by which the lid may be secured to the top horizontal strip 14.

The drawer 7 proper, consists of the end walls 15 and 16, the rear wall 17, the bottom 18 and the front wall or partition 20 between the drawer 7 and the shoe-box 8. The end wall 21 of the shoe-box may be a but the end wall 22 of the shoe-box is positioned at an oblique angle with the panel 15 of the drawer to form a beveled end on the shoe-box which will permit the door 2 to swing upon the hinges 4 without striking the corner of the shoe-box.

The front panel 12 of the shoe-box is provided with a handle 24 for withdrawing the shoe-box and drawer as a unit from the body section of the trunk. Said unit may be entirely removed from the trunk, as shown in Fig. 2, and when in place in the trunk is may be held in its proper place by a cleat or stop 25 carried by the door section 2 when the latter is closed upon the body section, with the stop 25 adjacent to the shoe- When the trunk is closed the shoe-box occupies about one-half of the depth of the door section 2, as shown in Fig.`3, leaving a space between the front panel l2 of the shoe-box and the panel 27 of the door 2, for full length garments in the wardrobe section.

By constructing the shoe-box and the lowest drawer as a single unit the door or wardrobe section may be opened free of the shoebox, thus making the full length of the wardrobe section accessible, as shown in Fig. l, without the position of the shoe-box being changed; the shoe-box remaining as part of the drawer section of the trunk.

conomy in construction is also obtained by utilizing a single panel which takes the place of a front panel for the drawer and a rear panel for the shoe-box.

Having thus described my invention I claim and desire to secure by Letters 20 Patent:

A wardrobe trunk comprising two 'sections pivotally secured together, one of said sections forming a wardrobe compartment, the other of said sections forming a cabinet section, a removable drawer located in the lower portion of the cabinet section, said removable drawer having a compartment accessible from the top of Jthe drawer when the latter is pulled out from its closed position in the cabinet section, and a receptacle formed upon the front face of said removable drawer adapted to occupy' a space in the lower portion of the said wardrobe section when the trunk is closed.

In testimony whereof I aliiX my signature.

OTTO RANGNOW. 

